Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery, BTR.org. I'm Anne. I'm sure you remember what it was like when you were searching for help, maybe for your husband, hoping to find the right program or therapist. That's why I started podcasting. I supported my husband through seven years of pornography addiction recovery and not one therapist during that time told me I was experiencing emotional

and psychological abuse and sexual coercion. I didn't want any other woman on the planet to be in

the dark. If you're like the majority of my listeners, you're experiencing the type of abuse that's

invisible and difficult to wrap your head around. Your husband is using porn or having

affairs or lying to you, and you're getting the same bad advice about how to improve communication

or your relationship. If you need support from women who totally understand, check out our daily

group session schedule at BTR.org slash group. We'd love to see you in a session today. One simple, anonymous way to help spread the word

is to click, follow, or subscribe to the Betrayal Trauma Recovery podcast on your favorite

podcasting app. While you're there, every five-star rating helps make this podcast more visible

and will help save other women from getting the wrong kind of help, like a couple

program that will make this type of abuse worse. For those of you who follow or subscribe to this

podcast, thank you so much. Your support means so much to me. Is emotional abuse considered

domestic violence? Yes, emotional abuse is considered domestic violence. A domestic violence survivor is going

to share her story with us today, and we're going to explain why, because it's very important to

understand why emotional abuse is considered domestic violence. In fact, I think it's the most important one because physical violence never occurs without

emotional abuse.

So if everyone can learn to recognize emotional abuse and protect themselves from it, the chances

of being physically harmed go down drastically.

To illustrate how emotional abuse is domestic violence,

my book Trauma Mama, Husband Drama really helps because it is an actual picture book. There's a ton of

infographics in the back that illustrate this type of domestic violence and explain why

emotional abuse is domestic violence. It's an extremely quick read. So if you have

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